friday takeout
December 20, 2019
CUPPA JOE | straight up news.
- When our students enter the workforce, they make a tremendous impact on the community. Thank you for the role you play in their lives. Happy Holidays from the Northeast Iowa Community College Foundation ... video
- Let the renovations begin! Board of Trustees awards bids for Town Clock Business Center renovations to general contractor and subcontractors ... news
- Intelligent.com ranks the College's online Health Information Technology degree program second in the nation! ... news
- Note: Friday Takeout is taking a vacation! The next issue is Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. We wish everyone a safe, relaxing and joyful holiday season!
Wanna Be on the New Website?
- NOTE TO READERS: The Marketing and External Relations offices will be hosting sessions for head shot photos to be taken for College faculty and staff who would like their photo displayed on the web directory. These images may also be used for publications, public relations, Brightspace, Staff IDs and to keep for your own personal use.
- These sessions will be offered three times during the year and will be the only time to get headshots through our offices. The dates will be Fall and Spring Convocation, and Employee Recognition.
- The next sessions are:
- Peosta: Wednesday, Jan. 8 | Conference Center 3 from Noon - 1 p.m. and 2:30 - 3 p.m.
- Calmar: Thursday, Jan. 9 | Wilder Business Center, Room 103, from Noon - 2 p.m.
- We recommend you wear a professional-looking shirt that is solid colored.
- If you have questions, email marketing@nicc.edu or news@nicc.edu. If you already have a professional portrait that you want included on the web directory, email webmaster@nicc.edu.
WEEKLY FEATURE | good to know.
Here are America's Top New Year's Resolutions for 2020!
“I’m going to: quit smoking … get a gym membership … join a reading club” … etc, etc. These statements are familiar to us as commonly-declared New Year’s Resolutions, but are not often kept as the next year marches on.
In an article for statista.com, writer Katharina Bucholz shares research on New Year’s Resolutions for 2020 based on a national survey conducted by Ipsos for Urban Plates.
Among the findings: “51 percent wanted to manage their finances better and an equal amount wanted to adopt healthier eating habits. More popular resolutions for the upcoming year also circled around improving one’s health, with a more active lifestyle and weight loss being favorite answers.”
The chart shown at right displays the top eight resolutions based on the national survey. Do any of these ambitious goals match yours for the New Year?
JUST DESSERTS | let's celebrate.
Congratulations and Welcome to Northeast Iowa Community College!
Chelsea Clegg is a new online Biology Instructor for the district.
Andrea Kane is a new Health Information Technology instructor at Calmar.
Jesse Coulson is a new EMS Program Developer at Peosta.
PIES and BARS | sweet data.
New Link to IR Data in MyCampus!
Are you having trouble locating student data in NICC Shared Files? We can help! Institutional Research now has an icon link in MyCampus that will take you straight to our folders! Simply search Institutional Research for the link. Once you arrive if you're not certain where to find what you're looking for, open the Data Reference Card which you will see below the IR folders.
If you still have questions, don't hesitate to contact us! We are here to meet your needs for data.
Lor Miller, Director, ext. 1203
Brandon Kadlec, Coordinator, ext. 1419
BIG FISH | be amazed.
Drill Sergeant Eg'nogg
Santa's Workshop | The North Pole (where the ice sheets have not yet melted.)
Welcome to the North Pole, kids. You're all here because you've been given the unheard of chance to get off the naughty list. The pole's elven population is battling an e coli bug and we're in desperate need of the cavalry. We don't have a cavalry – we just have you.
After this briefing you'll go to the jingle-master and grab your North-issued: hat, boots, belt buckle, thermo-controlled exo-suits and bell. That is your bell, and there are many like it, but that one is yours. At final formation you will have that thing shining like Rudolph's nose; you hear? Speaking of Red, stop by his memorial and pay your respects to a greatness you'll never know. On a completely unrelated note: if something on you starts glowing, seek medical attention immediately. You'll be reassigned to a community college in Iowa and work as a living battery, saving them a ton on electric bills.
We're not going to get you to the toy-front line right away, so get the notion of being a hero out of your chestnuts. Keep in mind, Santa is the star and you're just support: order fulfillment, packaging, admin and reindeer poop patrol. The reindeer fly. Their magical chocolate kisses don't.
Because you signed the non-disclosure agreement, here are some announcements from HQ:
- If you see a seemingly-docile snow monster with pointy teeth, do not engage. Your yuletide career will be over, and we'll have to send a collection stocking around for your parents.
- Next: If you see a blonde elf with dental forceps, please note he is unlicensed for practice in this region and does not have litigation insurance. Use him at your own risk.
- HQ requires me to mention every year ... there is no Mrs. Claus. There was never any Mrs. Claus. If you see a human female figure magically floating in the air, you are required to report it to the coal patrol.
- Donner is the most overrated reindeer in the game. We know it; he knows it. He will ask, but do not reward him with extra feed.
- Do not bother The Kringle. You're here because you're trying to get off the naughty list – and you ain't there yet. Santa's got latent psychic abilities, so you're wasting your time and his.
Chow's at twelve hundred hours, final formation's at nineteen hundred. Deserters will be jollied on sight.
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If you have input on a upcoming feature, Big Fish, something to celebrate or a suggestion, email us at news@nicc.edu!